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Word has it that there’s an infamous home in Chino Hills,
California that operates as a maternity center for pregnant
Chinese women who go to the U.S. on tourist visas for the express
purpose of popping out a so-called “anchor baby,” a kid that
would be entitled to U.S. citizenship. Once the kid gets
citizenship, then the parents can petition to stay, etc. This is
the kind of thing that makes Republican heads explode.

Residents of a Southern California suburb are protesting against
a hilltop home that they say serves as a maternity center for
Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth to
so-called “anchor babies.”

The city’s mayor tells the San Bernardino Sun that rooms in the
house have been rented out to pregnant Chinese women until they
give birth.

Yeah, that kind of thing doesn’t go over so well, particularly in
a country with so many recent immigrants who came over legally.
Tends to make some folks a bit angry.

Of course, immigration is a politically sensitive issue in the
U.S. If one is critical of illegal immigration, for example, the
fine line between policy critique and racism must be navigated.
In this case, the louder the protest, the more likely someone
from the National Association of Chinese-American Racial Harmony
(if such an organization existed) will hop on a plane to LA and
stage a counter-demonstration. And no one likes to be called a
racist, especially if you suspect that you might actually be a
racist.

That’s why the critics like to dress up their denunciations with
“Rule of Law” language. You see, they aren’t griping about
Chinese people, just anyone who breaks the law. One can take this
sort of thing too far, though, and we get the following kind of
hilarious excuse:

Protesters say they don’t want to see a business in a residential
area.

Ha ha! See, this has nothing to do with illegal immigrants coming
to steal our jobs and mooch free health care and education off
us. No, we’re really concerned with zoning
violations! Dammit, get that anchor baby business out
of the suburbs and put it in Chinatown where it belongs.

You can’t make this stuff up. I wonder if they’d protest an
illegal Starbucks franchise that moved into the neighborhood?